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Engired

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Registered: 2024-03-14

Posts: 6

SDDM hanging (Solved)

I installed a theme but something went wrong, and now it's just booting up to a black screen with a white cursor.
I can still enter the tty, but it only says starting SDDM then entering graphical interface. So I tried using a live usb to copy the default.conf
to etc/sddm.conf.d again with

cp /usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d/default.conf /etc/sddm.conf.d

in arch-chroot. but! When I restarted it still came up with a white cursor, and when I remounted again I couldn't cd into /etc/sddm.conf.d in chroot
or through the actual live usb environment itself. It just gives the error

bash: cd: sddm.conf.d: Not a directory

or

Correcting sddm.conf.d to .

Opening vim to try to edit the copied default.conf also gives 'permission denied'. I can see the directory exists through 'ls' and if I make the directory
manually it still doesn't work. I can backup my data and reinstall, but I hope there's a proper answer to this. Also my downloaded theme was missing
even though I did extract it to the proper location, and I did make a config file yet that doesn't show up either when I try looking for it
through the live usb environment.

Theme is: https://store.kde.org/p/1312658, I installed all the packages correctly, and I'm completely lost at this point.

Last edited by Engired (2024-03-21 10:45:24)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,230

Re: SDDM hanging (Solved)

/etc/sddm.conf.d is not existing by default so you just copied the literal default.conf to that path as the file name (... and as a file, not a directory, an ls -l listing will lack the "d" declaration). I suggest you remove /etc/sddm.conf.d and instead copy the default over /etc/sddm.conf

Last edited by V1del (2024-03-21 10:22:50)

Engired

Member

Registered: 2024-03-14

Posts: 6

Re: SDDM hanging (Solved)

/etc/sddm.conf.d is not existing by default so you just copied the literal default.conf to that path as the file name (... and as a file, not a directory, an ls -l listing will lack the "d" declaration). I suggest you remove /etc/sddm.conf.d and instead copy the default over /etc/sddm.conf

Fixed it through the tty, live usb environment gave completely different files than my actual drive had. Not quite sure why this is, but the problem is solved now!